56. So, then, Peter’s mother-in-law
found some to pray for her. And you, O widow, find those who will
pray for you, if as a true widow and desolate you hope in God, continue
instant in supplications, persist in prayers, 1 Tim. v. 5. treat your body as dying daily, that
by dying you may live again; avoid pleasures, that you, too, being
sick, may be healed. “For she that liveth in pleasure is
dead while she liveth.” 1 Tim. v. 6.